The Day My Son Tried To Be Just Like Me And Unfortunately Succeeded

Daniel Williams
6 min readJul 12, 2020
the boy

When I lived in an apartment alone, I lived a wild life, which is to say I lived like wildlife.

As I paced the dim and dirty rooms, looking for lost things, I resembled a beast looking for lost things and for dinner and for a piece of shiny garbage to line its nest with, to make it beautiful.

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Daniel Williams

A poverty-stricken, soft Batman by night. Illustrator and writing teacher by day. Previously: McSweeney’s, Slackjaw.